The Australian Bureau of Statistics’ monthly update on mortality has the eye-catching statistic that in every single week from 1 November 2020 to 31 May 2021, more Australians died than the average...
Not so long ago, the best way for a non-law abiding Australian to make a lot of money was to import drugs such as heroin or...
“Trustworthy, insightful, important” — one thing we can say for our mainstream media is that they must think we are a pretty thick lot. The New...
One of the great ironies of the Covid-19 pandemic is how consistent Western governments have been at providing inconsistent health advice. On 24 April 2020, the Commonwealth Government advised the public to...
On August 14, 2020, I woke up to a barrage of WhatsApp messages. Group conversations I’m in were buzzing. The UAE and Israel had just announced...
With all the focus on Covid, it’s good to see that major reform efforts are still underway. Last week the Morrison Government released a Bill to...
According to a YouGov poll published in yesterday’s Australian, two-thirds of Australians agree that people who are not vaccinated should be denied privileges that they have to date...
For those stuck in their umpteenth lockdown – despair not! It seems that after 18 months of working from home, someone in the Department of Prime Minister...
Whenever you read a piece on polling by honest commentators like our own Charles Pier, you’ll find a line in there somewhere saying that polls shouldn’t...
Who would’ve thought I’d be seeking the advice of a 2,400-year-old guy during a New Zealand lockdown. Maybe you’re thinking I’m trying to make sense of...